Speaking about his role as managing director, business information security, at financial giant State Street, TJ Hart says, "I wake up nervous, and I go to bed nervous." But he channels that energy into trying to better understand the threat landscape and use that data to make better business risk decisions.
MSPs and their SMB clients took a beating in 2021 as cybercriminals evolved their strategies and extortion tactics to succeed with costly ransomware, tech supply-chain and other attacks. Recent research shows where businesses and their IT service providers failed to close gaps in defense strategies – gaps that led...
ESG research points to a dangerous conclusion: existing threat detection and response strategies aren’t working, leaving organizations in a state of more cyber-risk than they perceive. Why? Security operations for threat detection and response are based on too many tools and manual processes, not to mention an...
Security And Financial Impacts Are Felt
When A Collective Defense Is Hampered
Businesses today are building new ways to digitally connect
with their customers by quickly adopting new technology while
maintaining legacy investments. This brings about challenges for the
security team as business data and tooling...
The disruption of the pandemic along with the anywhere workforce resulted in a surge of sophisticated cyberattacks and material breaches. 63% of U.S. cybersecurity professionals said attacks increased due to employees working remotely.
Security teams now face the challenge of securing the anywhere workforce. The...
Cyber attacks happen — that’s a static fact of today’s cyber-fueled world. What isn’t static is how and where these attacks happen. Opportunities for attackers abound as networks grow more complex and orgs migrate (or come to life) in the cloud. Today’s attackers can spend months hiding in an environment,...
Don't click phishy links. Everyone knows that. But are your end users prepared to quickly identify today's tricky tactics being used by bad actors? Probably not. Cybercriminals have moved beyond simple bait and switch domains. They're now employing a variety of advanced social engineering techniques to entice your...
You can tell from the news headlines that cybersecurity attacks are increasing in both frequency and sophistication. But you don’t have to be a household name to be an attractive target for today’s cybercriminals.
Protecting your business is an ongoing process, and it requires careful planning. In this...
As the universe of sophisticated cyber threats, such as ransomware, continues to grow in volume and effectiveness, organisations in every industry are moving from a threat prevention strategy to a cyber resilience model for holistic cyber security.
Organisations acknowledge that while blocking threats is still a...
CISA Director Jen Easterly and congressional leader John Katko, R-N.Y., agree that officials must take precautionary steps to identify "systemically important critical infrastructure" to reduce risks of pervasive supply chain cyberattacks.
It takes years to build a brand. A cyberattack that exposes customer data or even simply
paints the company in a negative light can cause catastrophic loss of trust in an instant.
Fortunately, all is not yet lost. Cybersecurity companies are continuing to fend off cybercriminals and consumers are
slowly but...
In ransomware attacks, cybercriminals attack through the backups because they know that security practitioners rely on backups to save themselves after a ransomware attack. Therefore, it is essential to have multiple backups, says Tom Kellermann, head of cybersecurity strategy at VMware.
The threats have multiplied, tools have maxed out and the staff lacks capacity for real-time detection, investigation and response. Enter: MDR. John Irvine of eSentire discusses the power of MDR and the role of digital forensics.
The business benefits of digital transformation in grid operations are tremendous, but this progress increases cyber risk to Operations Technology (OT) in the areas of safety, unscheduled downtime, and negative impact on corporate brand.
The good news is that there are practical steps utilities can take to enhance...
How many ways do U.S. businesses need to be told to lock down their systems to safeguard themselves from ransomware? That's the focus of a new, joint cybersecurity advisory from the U.S. government pertaining to BlackMatter, following an advisory issued last month about Conti.
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